critical review of Steven Watson

Critical Review of Steven Watson 's Factory Made

Steven Watson 's book Factory Made : Warhol and the Sixties ' proves to be another brilliant attempt of the scholar to create a cultural map of America 's 20th century pop culture . In this book , Watson presents the art culture of the 1960s - not just through a biography of an artist or a of some prominent films or TV shows during that time Rather , Watson describes the 1960s art by examining a collection of intermingled lives comprising the Silver Factory ' and its lead character - Andy

Warhol

Although there have been many attempts to extensively illustrate the life of the late great Warhol , Watson 's remains to be distinct . Although written more than a decade after the controversial artist 's death Watson gave a new light on Warhol 's character . He `humanized ' the creative figure that was often just described in terms of old film strips and photographs . To some readers , he also probably made them realize that Warhol is more than a painter (since Warhol 's paintings is what makes him popular these days

Unlike usual biographies , Watson explored Warhol not through his work but through his relationships with the people that he worked with . He does this by exploring the lives of the people which Warhol provided with `fifteen minutes of fame . His historical presentation of Warhol 's life was masked with drama and that made the piece engaging and exciting to read . With this in mind , it seemed that Watson...